Atelier Faculty

Bridget Kearney

Bridget Kearney headshot

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About

Bridget Kearney is an Iowa-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. A founding member of the band Lake Street Dive, she has performed at venues including Radio City Music Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, Red Rocks Amphitheater, and The White House South Lawn and has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report and Conan. Her third solo album, "Comeback Kid," will come out later this year on Keeled Scales. In 2020 she released the album "Still Flying" on Verve Forecast, written and recorded in Accra, Ghana, a collaboration with Ghanaian artists Aaron Bebe Sukura and Stevo Atambire, as well as Los Angeles-based producer Benjamin Lazar Davis. She also performs as a side person with various artists, having recently played bass with pop singer Ed Sheeran and folk singer Aoife O'Donovan. Kearney holds a BM from the New England Conservatory in Jazz Studies (bass) and a BA from Tufts University in English.

 

Lake Street Dive on 'THE LATE SHOW'

Bridget Kearney + Benjamin Lazar Davis — "Say Something"

Bridget Kearney — "Wash Up"

Bridget Kearney — "Love Doctor"